Heuristic Quotes

#1. If the rule of thumb for attention literacy is to pay attention to your intention, then the heuristic for crap detection is to make skepticism your default.

Howard Rheingold

#2. Heuristic decision making is fast and frugal and is often based on the evaluation of one or two salient bits of information. We

Amitav Chakravarti

#3. The almost universal nature of within-group amity and between-group
enmity, wherein the rule-of-thumb heuristic is to trust in-group
members until they prove otherwise to be distrustful, and to distrust
out-group members until they prove otherwise to be trustful.

Michael Shermer

#4. By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.

Daniel Kahneman

#5. If the heuristic and analytic power of science can be joined with the introspective creativity of the humanities, human existence will rise to an infinitely more productive and interesting meaning.

Edward O. Wilson

#6. the availability heuristic. We draw on what is readily available as truth and generalize this information as knowledge.

Deborah L. Plummer

#7. By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'.

Woody Allen

#8. The answer was straightforward: instances of the class will be retrieved from memory, and if retrieval is easy and fluent, the category will be judged to be large. We defined the availability heuristic as the process of judging frequency by the ease with which instances come to mind.

Daniel Kahneman

#9. The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.

Wilhelm Wundt

#10. The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

Imre Lakatos

#11. The Affect Heuristic The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.

Daniel Kahneman

#12. It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.

Imre Lakatos

#13. To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue.

Ernst Mayr

#14. The reliance on the heuristic caused predictable biases (systematic errors) in their predictions.

Daniel Kahneman

#15. A heuristic we follow is that whenever we feel the need to comment something, we write a method instead.

Martin Fowler

#16. Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It's less predictable, it's more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee.

Steve McConnell

#17. Social scientists emphasize that people use the "availability heuristic," which means that we assess risks by asking whether a bad (or good) event is cognitively "available." It

Cass R. Sunstein

#18. Anachronism becomes a problem only in questions of historical meaning, and even then anachronistic analogies can still have heuristic value.

John J. Collins

#19. Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

Imre Lakatos

#20. The technical definition of heuristic is a simple procedure that helps find adequate, though often imperfect, answers to difficult questions. The word comes from the same root as eureka.

Daniel Kahneman

#21. Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.

Mark Jason Dominus

#22. Harvard Business School's Teresa Amabile have found that external rewards and punishments - both carrots and sticks - can work nicely for algorithmic tasks. But they can be devastating for heuristic ones.

Daniel H. Pink

#23. To reprise language from the previous chapter, the solution isn't algorithmic (following a set path) but heuristic (breaking from the path to discover a novel strategy).

Daniel H. Pink

#24. The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#25. I am persuaded that not a novel in ten thousand is of any use to a child to fit him for life. The most are of use only to unfit him
to blunt his senses and infect him with the writers' poor silly sentiments. Nine out of ten novelists deserve to be prosecuted under an Adulterated Emotions Act.

Storm Jameson

#26. It was protective, on her side; sprang from a sense of being in league together, a presentiment of something that was bound to part them (they spoke of marriage always as a catastrophe), which led to this chivalry, this protective feeling which was much more on her side than Sally's.

Virginia Woolf

#27. Family doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have a mother, a father, a little brother, and an older sister.

Bindi Irwin

#28. Relationships with your enemies; you need to cultivate those, because: Only true enemies stab you in the front.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#29. I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.

Lili Taylor